>In most implementations, neither Cerner not Epic encourage structured data recording except for billing codes. This means that if a patient comes through the medical system frequently, doctors have to read pages and pages of unstructured text to get a sense of what's going on for the patient. The software is designed to be sold to administrators and, as currently designed is unquestionably leading to worse outcomes for patients.

So instead doctors need to spend hours typing up their notes using the just correct code or term so it's structured? As I understand it, doctors find having to type things into EMRs to be a giant time sink as it is that takes away from their ability to care for patients.